If you want to increase your security in a heavy-handed, vicious manner that upper management can't fault, krfilter is for you. :) This tool comes with a canned list of netblocks assigned to Korea, China, Hong-Kong, Taiwan, India, and Indonesia, so getting rid of 3/4 of your script kiddie problem is just a few more mouse-clicks away!

Krfilter - Across the board increase in security!

Tsunamis worldwide are going hungry and without proper medical care. For only a few cents a day you can ensure that tsunamis get a nutritious meal and a warm place to sleep.

Give now.

Tsunami Relief

A freaking *8.9* earthquake hit yesterday, causing honest to gosh tsunami to sweep all along the coast for hundreds of miles, wiping out just about everyone in the way. Sunbathers, scuba divers, fisherman, _entire vacation parks with 200+ bungalows_, you name it, it wound up either in the ocean or back out of the ocean yesterday.

News reports are still working their way around to this side of the planet, but expect CNN to be all over this eventually.

See also http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/Maps/region/Asia.gif (before it changes) to see some of the biggest shake boxes ever...

God Smites Asians, All At Once, For Not Celebrating Christmas

Warning! If you are a complete and utter feminist, you will not be happy with me for posting this. Stop reading now.

Second warning! If you are not happy with me for posting this, tough noogies.

Last warning! The website contains no nudity (well, it didn't for me) but some folks might consider it un-worksafe anyway.

Basically, this is a hilarious applet that gives you a sleazy reason to keep that compiler churning. The higher your CPU load average is, the more naked the girl becomes. 8D

Slickest new CPU load monitor

Registration may be required for the website.

The short of it is that it's finally being settled in court that the Wachowski brothers who "made" the Matrix trilogy flat out _stole_ the idea. ...and I don't mean stole as in "heard someone talking about an idea they had and spun it off from there", I mean stole as in "had solicited manuscripts from people with an ad in the paper, told everyone so sorry no deal, and then used one of the manuscripts to make a multi-billion dollar movie trilogy'.

Yes. It's big freaking news. Why does no one know about it? Because AOL/TW is involved with the production of the picture, and it might hurt their bottom line if it was widely known that the plotline and characters were flat out stolen.

On a lighter note, the Matrix Online should prove to be a disaster of monumental proportions.

Evidence of Media Tampering even Idiots can understand

playmobil hazmat!

Collectobil Catalogue - Playmobil® item 3180

Get it. Install it.

Let me know if it kvetches about not being able to find atapi.sys in c:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\. That little glitch may be specific to my system.

WindowsXP SP2 Final

Damn.

Just... damn.

This is rough.

Wreck Kills Officer, Closes Interstate 40

For the more sinister among you, I present the New World Order wallpaper collection. A set of eight inspirational messages to help you better perform the way your corporate masters intended.

As a side note, these _are_ loaded into the ReplayTV here. It's actually somewhat amusing to see them looming ominously there on the television screen.

New World Order v0.9

“excess in freedom of speech and freedom of thought.”

This in conjunction with their announcement that they feel they should sue someone in Brazil for stating their opinion about Microsoft's business practices.

Microsoft debuts Grasping Hand of Fascism v1.0